October 17, 2019

Intorduction

This app allows users to chose US States based on their climat preferences: - How many days in a year you are willing to freeze? - How many States you would like to consider from? - Would you like to consider other details such as population, life expectancy etc.?

Recources

Data set used for application: state.x77. state.x77 - matrix with 50 rows and 8 columns giving the following statistics in the respective columns: - Population: population estimate as of July 1, 1975 - Income: per capita income (1974) - Illiteracy: illiteracy (1970, percent of population) - Life Exp: life expectancy in years (1969-71) - Murder: murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate per 100,000 population (1976) - HS Grad: percent high-school graduates (1970) - Frost: mean number of days with minimum temperature below freezing (1931-1960) in capital or large city - Area: land area in square miles Source U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census (1977) Statistical Abstract of the United States. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census (1977) County and City Data Book.

Instructions

Filters

  1. Mean number of days with minimum temperature below freezing (1931-1960) Summary of number of days below freezing accross all States
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##    0.00   66.25  114.50  104.46  139.75  188.00
  1. Number of Top warmest states (1-50) Number of states in the data set:
## [1] 50

Plot

Map plot shows selected States based on applied filters (example below shows States that on average have maximum 25 freezing days within a year):

Table

Table provides Statistical details of the US States:

state.abb Population Income Illiteracy Life Exp Murder HS Grad Frost Area
AL 3615 3624 2.1 69.05 15.1 41.3 20 50708
AZ 2212 4530 1.8 70.55 7.8 58.1 15 113417
CA 21198 5114 1.1 71.71 10.3 62.6 20 156361
FL 8277 4815 1.3 70.66 10.7 52.6 11 54090
HI 868 4963 1.9 73.60 6.2 61.9 0 6425
LA 3806 3545 2.8 68.76 13.2 42.2 12 44930

What State did you chose?